# Adoration of the Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GIULIO ROMANO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 275 x 212 cm ## Commentary Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1535 Oil on wood, 275 x 212 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris In the second half of the 1530s, Giulio Romano was in charge of decorating and furnishing the St Longinus Chapel in the church of Sant'Andrea in Mantua. He painted one of his great masterpieces of religious art for this chapel - the Adoration of the Shepherds altarpiece, now in the Louvre. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Ajax Defends Patroclus's Corps]() - [Ajax Defends Patroclus's Corps]() - [Allegory of the Virtues of Federico II Gonzaga]() - [Battle of Zama]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()